Sugar Skulls & White Smug
It is said that we are mirrors for each other, so this one goes out to the smirking white blonde mirror reflecting that one time I attempted to paint a sugar skull onto my own white face, as I am...
View ArticleWhite, Angry, & Learning About Structural Racism
When I was a kid, I was taught early on (and often) that racism means treating people badly because their skin colour is different from my own. I was taught that this is wrong, and I should never do...
View ArticleAnecdotal Observations From A Trans Guy
I have been living full-time as a man now for a year and a half. I was raised a girl with aspirations of one day becoming a woman, and though I certainly no longer hesitate to credit myself with giving...
View ArticleFor Non-Natives: On Two-Spirituality
This piece of writing is a call-out. If you are a non-native, you are not now and will never be Two-Spirit. You will never know what it is to be racialised as an indigenous person who also bears the...
View ArticlePro-Life Is A Hate Movement: Know Your Enemy
Have you ever wondered why pro-life demonstrations aren’t merely upsetting, but actually enraging? Once you see the answer, you can’t unsee it. It’s an organized hate movement. Once in a while, someone...
View ArticleDebunking the Men’s Rights Movement
Originally posted on Debunking MRAs: What follows is a response to a popular list of claims and arguments made by men’s rights activists. 1. SUICIDE: Men’s suicide rate is 4.6 times higher than that of...
View ArticleBecause I Am White: An Incomplete List Of Privileges
Because I am white, I am more likely to have a gun put in my hands than to have one pulled on me. In fact, this has even already happened to me (I wasn’t yet finished high school when my father brought...
View ArticleDissociative Identity Disorder, Crisis Management, & Emotional Triage
Recently in my life away from writing this blog, a conflict erupted. It was a big one, with consequences reaching much further than my antagonist realises. I don’t call her my antagonist as if to imply...
View ArticleRevisiting Dreadlocks, White People, And The Cultural Appropriation Brigade
I’ve written before, and more than once, about how (and why) white people get hostile over the matter of white people wearing dreadlocks, and how fundamentally ridiculous an exercise this is. Just...
View ArticleTransformation
I’ve been changing a lot since I first started this blog. And in fact, I believe with conviction that I have been changing the most in the past year that I have barely been publishing any new writing....
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